Jobs at Atlantic Media

Coordinates high-profile interview subjects and guest appearances across The Atlantic’s editorial platforms. Responsibilities include identifying and booking talent, negotiating contracts and releases with legal, coordinating virtual and on-site appearance logistics, maintaining contact networks, tracking upcoming interviews, and supporting pre- and post-production logistics. The role requires strong communication, diplomacy, organization, research skills, collaboration, and familiarity with journalistic standards.

Report and write original, engaging stories about technology, consumer culture, e-commerce, retail, influencer marketing, travel, and logistics for a general audience. Develop story ideas, investigate companies and trends, work quickly on breaking news, produce deeply reported features, meet deadlines, and maintain high journalistic standards. The role may require night, early-morning, and weekend work.

Senior Editor will oversee and expand The Atlantic’s Dispatches section, generating ideas and assigning, editing, and top-editing articles across opinion, reporting, humor, and essays. The role involves guiding writers and editors, expanding contributor networks, ensuring editorial quality and diversity, shepherding pieces through copyediting and fact-checking, and collaborating across the newsroom on story presentation and distribution.

Reports and writes sophisticated, science-based stories about Americans’ changing health and wellness habits. The role involves analyzing scientific research, tracking emerging trends and policy shifts, developing influential sources, pitching stories, and producing both timely news coverage and ambitious long-form projects for a broad audience. Night, early-morning, and weekend work may occasionally be required.

The Senior Editor will lead The Atlantic’s Science and Health coverage, overseeing staff writers and collaborating with editors to produce ambitious, compelling stories about science and its impact. Responsibilities include assigning and shaping magazine stories, editing breaking news and deeply reported projects, managing reporters, and guiding coverage across fields such as physics, biology, neuroscience, climate change, and geology. The role requires strong leadership, editorial judgment, scientific curiosity, and flexibility for occasional night, early-morning, and weekend work.

The Staff Writer will cover the media industry, reporting and analyzing changes in journalism, technology, ownership, public responsibility, and political positioning. Responsibilities include cultivating high-level sources, pursuing scoops, producing conversation-starting stories for broad audiences, responding quickly to breaking news, and developing deep investigative features. The role requires strong writing, reporting, analytical abilities, and enthusiasm for The Atlantic’s mission.

Write original analysis and reporting for The Daily newsletter several times weekly; monitor domestic and international news; find fresh angles; meet tight daily deadlines; coordinate with editors and engage reader responses to shape coverage.

The Atlantic seeks an experienced magazine reporter to cover food culture—producing reported, stylish stories on trends, food science, and culinary life. The role requires breaking news and analysis, strong source cultivation, fast turnaround, editorial judgment, and a sense of humor while translating cultural ideas for a wide audience.

Lead visual direction and brand expression across print, web, app, podcasts, video, and events. Manage the art department and oversee design, illustration, and photography to elevate The Atlantic's visual identity while meeting editorial deadlines.

The Senior Art Director will manage and mentor the digital team, shape the visual identity of journalism, and create original illustrations for various projects.

The Senior Editor will oversee staff writers, edit stories, suggest ideas, and ensure timely delivery of editorials while managing newsletters and special projects.

Lead and build The Atlantic Book Club: select and champion titles, commission and edit related essays and interviews, write editor notes, run live and virtual author events, cultivate publisher and author relationships, maintain a pipeline of prospects, and collaborate with Growth, Product, and Audience teams to present and promote the membership offering.

Edit and assign argument-driven essays and analysis on foreign affairs and national security. Commission contributors, turn around freelance pieces quickly, coordinate with art, copy, fact-check and audience teams, and work nights, early mornings, and weekends as needed while maintaining strong editorial judgment and attention to detail.

The Atlantic seeks an experienced reporter for the Books desk to report on major ideas, trends, and controversies in publishing and literature. The role requires fast, rigorous reporting, breaking news, trend pieces, profiles, and collaborative story development, producing clear, stylish prose for a general audience while maintaining high ethical and accuracy standards.